An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
A hint or intimation.
Humour; temper of mind.
A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for en quadrans farthing) in the buttery books.
A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
To give someone a cue signal.
To spark or provoke
To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
An animal's tail. from 16th c.
A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. from 18th c.
A dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back). from 19th c.
A organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (- a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. from 20th c.
To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
To add to a queue data structure.
To fasten the hair into a queue.